[geeks] help, please..

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:11:10PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> "Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> > [ On Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 19:36:33 (-0400), Kurt Huhn wrote: ]
> > > I've been put in the unfortunate position of having to write a DOS batch
> > > script to configure and install some software for a client.
> > > Unfortunately, while I seem to hae most of the major stuff covered, I
> > > can't seem to find a DOS equivilent of 'sed'.  Does such a thing exist?

Yes, but not as part of the standard install.

> > It might be easier to write a small C (or whatever) program to do simple
> > substitutions.  There used to be dozens of examples of such programs
> > available too -- primarily designed for mailing-list merging, but a
> > decently well designed one should work just fine for you.....
> Perhaps, if we any C programmers, or if I was a C programmer.

I once wrote a batch file which drove the debug program to produce a couple
of binaries which it deleted afterwards.

> IANADevloper, I don't even play one on TV.  My developement skills are
> limited to shell scripts, Perl, and a little PHP...

Oh, in that case, you're screwed.  I suppose if Qbasic is installed you
could use that.

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